Show Trucks Truc for Russ Russia a Congressmen Think Someone Ought to Stop Soviet Trade By ny Frederick C. C Othman V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Congress still is trying to learn without any particular success why we ve keep sending stuff to western Europe which continues to forward the same kind of material material material ma ma- to Russia I dont don't mean bab baby food or vitamin enriched candy bars The lawgivers are worried about war-like war things such as steel copper locomotives machine machine machine ma ma- chine tools and trucks Were We're sending them to our allies And said allies are forwarding the same sort of items through the theiron theiron theiron iron curtain Of this there is no doubt The question is why The economic cooperation administration administration ad ad- ministration promised to tell all It sent to the house interstate and foreign commerce committee commit commit- tee a bulky citizen in a peeled- peeled onion haircut name of Robert N. N Golding in charge of looking into this sub rosa trade with Russia He said there'd been too much secrecy about it and then he began to talk in sonorous phrases The congressmen stared at him the reporters gave up trying to take tale notes and Rep Charles A. A Wolverton R R. N N. J. J finally exploded Lot of oC Talk In all my experience in this congress Ive I've never heard so much talk and got pot so little in information information information in- in formation as I have from you today The congressmen kept pounding pounding pounding pound pound- ing away however and they did manage to extract a few nuggets nuggets nuggets nug nug- gets of disconcerting information tion Take Tale trucks said Rep John JohnB B B. B Bennett R. R Mich We Ve are shipping heavy trucks to France and England Your own figures show how it And both of these countries countries countries coun coun- tries have been sending trucks to Russia Golding said there were trucks and trucks The ones going from here to England and France are all monsters The ones going from there to the Communists Communists Communists Com Com- are small horse 60 power jobs Just the kind that Russia wants interjected Rep Wolverton Wolver Wolver- ton Furthermore he demanded is Russia sending us anything much except furs for coats and nd canned crab meat Golding said that was about all He added that he was trying trying try try- ing mg to persuade the Europeans to cut out exports to Russia all allright allright allright right but that he hadn't succeeded succeeded succeeded suc suc- completely He said they were sovereign nations And you cant can't issue them orders Rep Bennett said well you could stop sending them stuff Maybe then they'd mend their ways Our Private War ar WarThe arThe The E EGA C A man said he doubted it Probably just make em mad He lIe said further that many European nations consider consider con con- sider siller the current fracas as a private rhubarb between Russia and the United States They want to keep out of it if they can Fact is said he some of oC them are isolationists exactly as most of us were in 1914 Rep Bennett demanded to know how much war machinery has gone to Russia from western western western west west- ern Europe since the fighting began in Korea Golding said he had no idea it would be months before the figures are assem assem- bled And let us be strictly fair about this one You will note that I have quoted not one Democrat as an asker of embarrassing embarrassing embarrassing em em- questions The Democrats Democrats Democrats Demo Demo- in general seem to think our exporters have done the best they can The Republicans dont don't This is an election year and poll- poll tics may enter into it but Id I'd still like to know know strictly strictly as asan asan asan an American taxpayer taxpayer-a a little littlemore littlemore littlemore more about those trucks Copyright ht 1950 United Feature Syndicate Inc |